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What's new in 2025
Added February 2025
Mathematics and Numeracy > Level 3
Slow reveal graphs are reverse engineered so students can discover and make sense of the data and processes involved in representing data. "It starts with a graph that has been stripped of context: its numbers, its labels, its title. The teacher facilitates a discussion around what students notice and wonder."
Pathway to Literacy is a comprehensive curriculum for ESL literacy learners. Theme-based lessons are accompanied by teaching tips, lesson plans, stories, vocabulary and phonics practise.
Computer basics > Basic digital literacy learner website
Instructors at the Labour Education Centre are developing an accessible and useful website to help learners develop basic digital literacy
Educator resources > Teaching literacy
The Digital Citizenship Toolkit is an open source textbook that introduces educators and students to the concept of critical digital literacy and how to engage in online communities as a digital citizen.
What was new in 2024
Added December 2024
Job preparation and hiring > Small business and entrepreneurship
Be Your Own Boss "is a ten-lesson unit that prepares students to use math and reasoning to make big decisions."
Foundational digital skills and knowledge > Productivity
Google Applied Digital Skills is an amazing, open and free collection of videos and lessons you can use to teach basic skills and more. Teachers are fully supported with a collection of guides, teacher stories and example projects.
Job preparation and hiring > Sector and job specific resources
Reading Skills for Healthcare Workers is a collection of 175 reading passages on various healthcare and home care topics. They can be used to help Level 2 readers (GLE 4 to 8) develop general healthcare knowledge, reading comprehension and writing skills. PDF fillable activities are also available.
Added June 2024
Educator resources > Teaching literacy
Two comprehensive guides from Calgary's CanLearn Society will help you develop a rigorous approach to reading instruction for adults with learning challenges and adults who are beginning to read.
Added May 2024
Foundational digital skills > Internet
An introduction to AI (videos and lessons) from Common Sense Education.
Mathematics and numeracy > Numeracy
Bank tutorials from BMO, CIBC, HSBC, RBC, Scotiabank and TD to support online banking.
Added February, 2024
Cursive writing introduction from the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition.
Empowering learners > Family literacy
Family literacy activities from Laubach Literacy Ontario.
An online and PDF version of the Viola Desmond story.
Literacy development supports > Phonics and spelling
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling: An Adult Reading Course of Study is a complete course with a teaching guide, detailed lesson plans and a learner activity book.